This anthropological skull is a scientifically accurate casting from a specimen copy which resides at the Institute of Anthropology and Human Genetics for Biologists in Germany. This Steinheim skull model (VP753/1 / 1001296) includes a relief map on the pedestal stand which shows the geographical area where the specimen was found.
This anthropology skull model was cast from an original skull which belonged to a forerunner of Neanderthal man known as Homo (sapiens) stenheimensis. The skull is from that of a person aged between 25 and 35 at the time of death and was discovered in a gravel pit in Steinheim, Southern Germany in 1933. The age of the original skull is approximately 250,000 years old and the jawbone is missing.